Definition, Functions and Photoshop History

Sejarah Photoshop

In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an employee at Industrial Light & Magic, who recommended Thomas to change the program into a full image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which has been renamed ImagePro. After that year, Thomas renamed his program into Photoshop and work in the short term with the scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; "A total of about 200 copies of Photoshop has shipped" this way.

During that time, John traveled to Silicon Valley in California and give a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple Computer Inc. and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. The second demonstration was successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.Sementara John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh.Source (wikipedia)

Photoshop functions

Lots of fugnsi Photoshop, but before that let me explain Fungsi Tool-tool Photoshop.

Crop & Slice Tool

Crop Tool - Shortcut (C), is used to crop the image, photo or canvas (paper work). This is done with a cutting tool to permanently change the shape of the width and height dimensions of the photo. Cutting is done by determining the area of a box-shaped pieces of a photograph.

Slice Tool- Shortcut (C), is used for the needs of the website by cutting the design results that have been created in Photoshop into smaller pieces.

Slice Select Tool- Shortcut (C), is used to select the pieces in a design that had been previously cut using the slice tool.

Annotation, Measuring & Navigation Tool

Eyedropper Tool- Shortcut (I), is used to take a sample color from an image or photographs, samples taken color by clicking the color target then will automatically change color (foreground color) in the toolbox.

Ruler Tool - Shortcut (I), is used to measure the width and height dimensions. This tool is usually used for websites such measure and estimate the height and width of a button interface, the header area or any other website. The unit used is usually pixels.

Note tool - Shortcut (I), is used to provide a note on the results of the design that's been made. These notes are useful as reminders in the design or manufacturing process can be useful as a medium for the delivery of a message when working in a team.

Hand Tool - Shortcut (H), is used to shift / move the field of view photos or images in the window view area or in the condition of the picture is in view (zoom in). Simply press and hold the space bar to borrow this tool.

Zoom Tool - Shortcut (Z), is used to enlarge or reduce the image or images. The zoom in or zoom out can be done through the option bar.

Selection Tool

Move Tool – Shortcut (V), the tool is used to move the position of the layer in a single photograph ormove an image or a layer in a photo to another/ Photo different.

Rectangular Marquee Tool - Shortcuts (M), the tool is used to select a box-shaped object. Right-click on this tool will display the other tools of groups such as the Elliptical marquee tool Marquee Tool, Single Row Marquee tool and Single Column Marquee Tool.

Eliptical Marquee Tool- Shortcuts (M), the tool is used forselects objects that circle such as selecting eye circles, tires and other objects. This tool is still a group with Rectangular Marquee Tool.

Lasso Tool- Shortcut (L), used to select objects with the free form, this tool will form a selection according to mouse movements, the use of this tool is very dependent on the movement of the mouse so it is quite difficult to control and achieve maximum results.

Polygonal Lasso Tool - Shortcut (L), used to select objects with angled free form, these tools form a selection point through the points made by using the left mouse click. This tool can also be used to cut andmengubah background foto.

Magnetic Lasso Tool- Shortcut (L), used to select objects with the free form, the workings of this tool is attached to the edges of the object to be cut when the mouse moves around the edge of the object, during the selection process of these tools form the connecting points of the selection.

Magic Wand Tool - Shortcut (W), is used to select one type of color (solid color) in the photo. This tool can select the settings tolerance values or values of color coverage, the greater the value, the more extensive coverage in the selection color.

Retouching Tool

Spot Healing Brush- Shortcut (J), is used to remove stains on a photograph or image, the tool is also commonly used to remove stains on the face orget rid of acne on the face.

Patch Tool - Shortcut (J), is used to improve the picture by utilizing patterns contained in the photo. Repair the damage done by selecting an area and then draw the selection of above target pattern to cover the area of damage.

Red Eye Tool- Shortcut (J), is used to remove red-eye effect arising on the photos due to taking photos in dark conditions cause the camera flash reflecting red color of blood vessels behind the eye.

Clone Stamp Tool- Shortcut (S), is used to take a sample of an image area thenclone/ Apply the sample to the above described area other photos based sample photos taken.

Pattern Stamp Tool- Shortcut (S), is used to paint the image by using a certain pattern according to the selected pattern on the option bar.

Eraser Tool- Shortcuts (E), is used to remove the photos or images in a raster layer.

Background Eraser Tool- Shortcuts (E), is used to delete a photo or image to produce a transparent layer on the photograph or on the deleted area.

Magic Eraser Tool - Shortcuts (E), is used to remove certain areas of a photograph or image that have similar color (one color) to be transparent with one click on the color area. Can be used untukmenghapus background one color.

Blur Tool - Used to soften / blur the specific area of a photo or image. By blurring the images will give the impression of a smooth, blur the image pixels can also disguise.

Sharpen Tool- Used to sharpen the specific area of a photo or image.

Smudge Tool- Used to rub / expunge certain areas of a photo or image as if influenced by the sweep of the index finger on a painting.

Dodge Tool- Shortcut (O), is used to describe the color in certain areas of an image or photo to give highlights on certain areas until the area look brighter / brighter.

Burn Tool - Shortcut (O), is used to darken the colors in certain areas of an image or photo to give a shadow / shadow on a specific area to look darker.

Sponge Tool- Shortcut (O), is used to change the saturation in certain areas of the image area or image.

Painting Tool

Brush Tool- Shortcut (B), is used to paint a picture or a picture with brush strokes by color (foreground color) that has been selected.

History Brush Tool- Shortcut (Y), used to paint the image using a snapshot or history state of Image.

Art History Brush Tool - Shortcut (Y), used to paint the image using a snapshot or state history of the image, with a certain artistic model.

Pencil Tool- Shortcut (B), used to paint with a pencil effect.

Gradient Tool - Shortcut (G), is used to paint the selected area (selected area) with a blend of two or more colors. Gradient also has several settings and types to produce the effect of color combination as you wish.

Paint Bucket Tool- Shortcut (G), is used for painting or coloring a certain area or a certain layer based color (foreground color) that has been selected.

Drawing and Type Tool

Path Selection Tool - Shortcut (A), is used to select the path that has been created using pen tool.

Horizontal Type Tool - Shortcut (T), is used to make the text horizontally. In addition to this there is also a tool Vertical Type Tool to create a vertical text and type mask to make the text in the form of selection.

Pen Tool - Shortcut (P), is used to draw a corner or curved path. This tool is also commonly used for selecting objects. In addition to these tools there is another tool to add to a collection point point, reduce and modify the path that has been made.

Definition, Functions and Photoshop History